Great Pop Questions

[ciphergoth]

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=004tZd

How Soon Is Now? How Do You Sleep? Are "Friends" Electric? For How Much Longer Must We Tolerate Mass Murder?

plus: May We Bang You? (Parliament, _Gloryhallastoopid_)

What Is There Is Uselessness to Cause You Distress? (AMM, _AMMMusic - 1966_)

climactic buzzcocks threesome: Ever Fallen in Love ? What Do I Get? and [deepest of all] Why Can't I Touch It?

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

Update: be sure and follow the link before contributing new ones - those guys have pretty good coverage!

Comments

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

Do you really want to hurt me?

[rainbowskye.livejournal.com]

Where's Captain Kirk?
Where have all the boot boys gone?
Should I stay or should I go?
um, that's as far as I can get off the top of my head..!
Joolz xx

[furrylemming.livejournal.com]

What have I done to deserve this?
Would you go to bed with me?

Radiohead do a nice line in questions...although they try to answer them too
Who are my real friends?
Am I really sinking this low?

not a bad one for me to end with methinks :)

[zotz]

Ballboy (who were brilliant last night, in a very wimpy-indie kind of way) :

"I wonder, are you drunk enough to sleep with me tonight?"

Oddly, I was looking at that site yesterday, specifically this page, on which one Mr Momus discloses that his first public musical performance ever was on South Claerk Street. Nobody'd ever told me he was from Paisley.

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

Should I stay or should I go?

What's inside a girl?

[ex-meta.livejournal.com]

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

Didya Get Any Onya?

Or am I losing my mind?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

be sure and follow the link before contributing new ones - those guys have pretty good coverage!
OK, so they had most of mine.
I don't see Don McLean's American Pie: "Did you write the book of love, and do you have faith in God above / and can you teach me how to dance real slow?"

and Magnetic Fields Papa was a Rodeo: "What are we doing in this dark bar? How can you live in a place like this? Why don't we both get into my car?"

[hiddenpaw.livejournal.com]

All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

I think I put them in the cupbord under the stairs.

[hiddenpaw.livejournal.com]

Who am I to dissagree?

Was that the trees a rustling or the hindges of the gate?

[kyte.livejournal.com]

All I wanted was a friend, where are they now? (Gene)...

[random-goblin.livejournal.com]

A brave man once requested me,
to answer questions that are key.
Is it to be or not to be?
And I replied 'Oh why ask me?' :sucide is painless -MASH theme

which hand holds your hand? : blood money- the sisters.
Isn't that what friends are for?: i was wrong - the sisters.

so what? :so what?- the cure

why can't I be you?: why can't I be you?-the cure

can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?: wish you were here- pink floyd

does you mother know where you are? - abba

Whatever happened to the heroes? :no more heroes- stranglers

can't believe they haven't posted
is this the real life?
is this just fantasy?:bohemian rahpsody- queen